BIB_ID
314065
Accession number
MA 7795.69
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1893] Apr. 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from James Anthony Froude to John Ruskin and Joan Severn. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Cherwell Edge, / Oxford."
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Cherwell Edge, / Oxford."
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Declining her invitation to visit next week as it will "run so close on term that I cannot be absent...The authorities refuse to let me off a single duty, though I pleaded to being 75 years old! because they wanted me to prove that I was old and incapable!! I must not gratify them;" adding "I must see your 'boy' again in this world.--In the other he will be in the higher sphere where the likes of me cannot hope to be admitted [.]"
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